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Wei H, Oei TP, Zhou R. Test anxiety impairs inhibitory control processes in a performance evaluation threat situation: Evidence from ERP. Biol Psychol. 2021;168:108241doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241.
Wei, H., Oei, T. P., & Zhou, R. (2021). Test anxiety impairs inhibitory control processes in a performance evaluation threat situation: Evidence from ERP. Biological psychology, 168108241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241
Wei, Hua, et al. "Test anxiety impairs inhibitory control processes in a performance evaluation threat situation: Evidence from ERP." Biological psychology vol. 168 (2021): 108241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241
Wei H, Oei TP, Zhou R. Test anxiety impairs inhibitory control processes in a performance evaluation threat situation: Evidence from ERP. Biol Psychol. 2021 Dec 16;168:108241. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241. Epub 2021 Dec 16. PMID: 34921961.
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Biol Psychol. 2021 Dec 16;168:108241. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241. Epub 2021 Dec 16.

Test anxiety impairs inhibitory control processes in a performance evaluation threat situation: Evidence from ERP.

Biological psychology

Hua Wei, Tian Po Oei, Renlai Zhou

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; Department of Psychology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China.
  2. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Qld, Australia.
  3. Department of Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems, Beijing, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34921961 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108241

Abstract

Attentional Control Theory proposes that test anxiety impairs inhibitory control, and high test anxiety (HTA) individuals often allocate greater top-down attentional control resources to maintain comparable task performance compared to low test anxiety (LTA) individuals. This study examined how test anxiety impairs inhibitory control. Eighty participants were required to perform a hybrid Go/Nogo Flanker task in the performance evaluation threat or no performance evaluation threat conditions, while behavioral and EEG data were recorded. The ERP results showed that HTA participants revealed significantly larger Nogo but not incongruent related N2 amplitude than LTA participants in the threat condition. In the threat condition, HTA individuals were associated with increased recruitment of top-down attentional control resources to perform the response inhibition task but not the interference suppression task.

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Keywords: Attentional Control Theory; ERP; Inhibitory control; Test anxiety

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